Read by an all-star cast and featuring a bonus story special to the audio edition,
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is a one-of-a-kind audiobook.... Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world.

5 out of 5 stars

Spices of imagination behind the door...

By
Belinda
on
02-25-13

The Seven Good Years

A Memoir

By:
Etgar Keret

Narrated by:
Alex Karpovsky

Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
107

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
97

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
95

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

3 out of 5 stars

Distinctive Stories, Kind of 'Meh' Narration

By
Rachel - Audible
on
10-17-17

The Best of the Best Horror of the Year

10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

By:
Ellen Datlow - editor

Narrated by:
Tim Campbell,
Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
8

Story

4 out of 5 stars
8

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders; and much more.

A Horse Walks into a Bar

By:
David Grossman,
Jessica Cohen

Narrated by:
Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
187

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
173

Story

4 out of 5 stars
174

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, teetering between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood.

5 out of 5 stars

An extraordinary experience

By
Judith Stein
on
07-28-17

Watchlist

32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest

By:
Charles Yu,
Cory Doctorow,
Etgar Keret,
and others

Narrated by:
Tom Parks

Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

2.5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
3

Story

2.5 out of 5 stars
3

We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live.

Tenth of December

Stories

By:
George Saunders

Narrated by:
George Saunders

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,220

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,098

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,104

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and
Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, "Victory Lap", a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In "Home", a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned.

5 out of 5 stars

Be prepared for something different...but good!

By
Mr. D
on
02-21-14

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Stories

By:
Etgar Keret

Narrated by:
Ira Glass,
Willem Dafoe,
Ben Marcus,
and others

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
127

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
111

Story

4 out of 5 stars
114

Read by an all-star cast and featuring a bonus story special to the audio edition,
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is a one-of-a-kind audiobook.... Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world.

5 out of 5 stars

Spices of imagination behind the door...

By
Belinda
on
02-25-13

The Seven Good Years

A Memoir

By:
Etgar Keret

Narrated by:
Alex Karpovsky

Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
107

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
97

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
95

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

3 out of 5 stars

Distinctive Stories, Kind of 'Meh' Narration

By
Rachel - Audible
on
10-17-17

The Best of the Best Horror of the Year

10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

By:
Ellen Datlow - editor

Narrated by:
Tim Campbell,
Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
8

Story

4 out of 5 stars
8

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders; and much more.

A Horse Walks into a Bar

By:
David Grossman,
Jessica Cohen

Narrated by:
Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
187

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
173

Story

4 out of 5 stars
174

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, teetering between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood.

5 out of 5 stars

An extraordinary experience

By
Judith Stein
on
07-28-17

Watchlist

32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest

By:
Charles Yu,
Cory Doctorow,
Etgar Keret,
and others

Narrated by:
Tom Parks

Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

2.5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
3

Story

2.5 out of 5 stars
3

We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live.

Tenth of December

Stories

By:
George Saunders

Narrated by:
George Saunders

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,220

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,098

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,104

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and
Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, "Victory Lap", a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In "Home", a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned.

5 out of 5 stars

Be prepared for something different...but good!

By
Mr. D
on
02-21-14

Flights

By:
Olga Tokarczuk,
Jennifer Croft - translator

Narrated by:
Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
55

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
48

Story

4 out of 5 stars
48

Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time.

5 out of 5 stars

What an incredible experience!

By
Halit Pinar, MD
on
09-09-18

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

By:
Yossi Klein Halevi

Narrated by:
Yossi Klein Halevi

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
49

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
49

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.

5 out of 5 stars

Israel 101 - but for Jews

By
GoingGoingGone...
on
06-13-18

Hits and Misses

By:
Simon Rich

Narrated by:
Simon Rich

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (The Daily Beast) - a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) and James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, he's back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

5 out of 5 stars

Murakami Being Murakami

By
Jay Quintana
on
05-10-17

Dallas Noir

By:
David Hale Smith

Narrated by:
Scott Brick,
Jennifer Van Dyck,
John McLain,
and others

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
9

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
9

Story

4 out of 5 stars
9

My favorite line in my favorite song about Dallas goes like this: Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes / A steel and concrete soul in a warm heart and love disguise... The narrator of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's perfect tune Dallas" is coming to town as a broke dreamer with the bright lights of the big city on his mind. He's just seen the Dallas cityscape through the window of his seat on a DC-9 at night. Is he just beginning his quest?

The Changeling

A Novel

By:
Victor LaValle

Narrated by:
Victor LaValle

Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
982

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
909

Story

4 out of 5 stars
905

When Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word
improbabilia. Now Apollo is a father himself - and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo's old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd.

3 out of 5 stars

Fractured Fairytale

By
Diane
on
08-07-17

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By:
Raymond Carver

Narrated by:
Norman Dietz

Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
49

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
46

Story

4 out of 5 stars
44

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film
Birdman, Raymond Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark.

5 out of 5 stars

Fabulous stories, writing and performance

By
Maggie
on
11-18-18

Transcription

A Novel

By:
Kate Atkinson

Narrated by:
Fenella Woolgar

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
619

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
579

Story

4 out of 5 stars
575

In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.

5 out of 5 stars

RIP Denis Johnson

By
Thomas B. Houghton
on
01-19-18

My Adventures with God

By:
Stephen Tobolowsky

Narrated by:
Stephen Tobolowsky

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
177

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
165

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
163

From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky - who currently appears on
The Goldbergs, HBO's
Silicon Valley, and Norman Lear's new
One Day at a Time, author of
The Dangerous Animals Club and
The Tobolowsky Files podcast -
My Adventures with God is a funny, introspective collection about love, catastrophe, and triumph, all told through the lens of his evolving relationship with the mystery that is "God".

5 out of 5 stars

Honest, irrefutable

By
Russell J Duncan
on
04-20-18

Where I'm Calling From

Selected Stories

By:
Raymond Carver

Narrated by:
Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
29

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
23

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
24

By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story.
Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from
Cathedral,
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.

2 out of 5 stars

Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading

By
Noirbat
on
05-10-18

Eileen

By:
Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by:
Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
676

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
630

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
629

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city.

4 out of 5 stars

Strange, unsettling, but engrossing

By
S. Yates
on
01-09-18

Publisher's Summary

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller.

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain - from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught up in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens.

New to Riverhead's list, these wildly inventive, uniquely humane stories are for fans of Etgar Keret's inimitable style and fans of transforming, brilliant fiction.